Alec

I witnessed an impressive technical demo of Gutenberg on WordPress contributors day in Paris by Gutenberg lead matveb (Matias Ventura) and attended Matt’s presentation in the big hall as well. Gutenberg is looking much better than it was four or five months ago. The code we were shown by matveb looked clean and extensible.

As a developer, building a block is not a problem for us (we built our own button above the editor in the current TinyMCE). Currently while we offer a visual interface, FV Player posts into the body in shortcode which makes the data very portable. Even if you disable our plugin the data remains.

Creating a block which will do similar magic, no problem. But I wonder what happens in Gutenberg when someone disables our plugin. What happens to that data? How will the content creator access at least the core of our data (the link to a video which may or may not play in a generic player as we support far more formats and hosts).

I heard that the goal is for Gutenberg to be completely cross-compatible with a conventional HTML editor and content block (say TinyMCE or CKedit). If a Gutenberg post can be reduced back to HTML and shortcode for cross-compatibility, which was promised at the Thursday 11am presentation by matveb, then most of my concerns are allayed. Gutenberg could become a very positive natural evolution in the creation of content.

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